2024 Lights of Life Gala Theme Announced
August 24, 2023 – The Hopkins County Health Care Foundation’s Annual Gala has become a cult event among locals for its over-the-top themes, delicious meals, elaborate décor, on-your-feet dance bands,and wonderful auctions. Adding to the evening is the fact that proceeds are used for improvement of local healthcare offerings. One of the first announcements each year after the Gala chairs are made public is the theme. Through the...
White House Announces New Student Loan Repayment Program
August 24, 2023 – The Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan, like other income-driven repayment (IDR) plans, calculates your monthly payment amount based on your income and family size. The SAVE Plan provides the lowest monthly payments of any IDR plan available to nearly all student borrowers. The new plan can significantly decrease your monthly payment amount compared to all other income-driven repayment plans. Your...
JoAn Coker
Funeral service for JoAn Coker, age 94 of Yantis, Texas will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Sunday, August 27, 2023 at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home with Byron George officiating. A private family graveside will be held after. Pallbearers will be Cory Coker, Keith Thronton, Major David Coker Jr., Peyt Blevins, Baylee Riddle, and Langston Ray. Honorary pallbearers will be Tim Coker, Fred Jones, Mark Rogers and Jeff Philpott. Visitation will be...
Lela Hollis
Funeral service for Lela Hollis, age 89 of Sulphur Springs, Texas will be held at 11:00 A.M. on Friday,August 25, 2023 at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home with buddy Wiggins officiating. Interment willfollow at Rock Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service. Mrs. Hollis passedaway on August 22, 2023 at Sulphur Springs Health and Rehab. Lela was born on August 25, 1933 in Sulphur Springs, Texas to C.W. and Olga...
JOHNNIE LEE BARRETT
JOHNNIE LEE BARRETT, 78, of LR, departed this life August 17, 2023. He is preceded in death by: father, Sugar Barrett; mother, Mary Juanita Barrett; brother, Thuster Barrett. He leaves to cherish his memory: spouse, Lue Jean Barrett; children, Jonathan Barrett, Monica (Larry) Smith, Jabali Barrett, Tamika “Nikki” (Ryan) Gore; siblings, William “Bill” Barrett and Nita Marie Barrett-Jones; six grandchildren, two...
Billie Jean Burns-Ross
Jean Ross passed away quietly at her beloved home in Sulphur Springs, Texas. She was the first born child and only daughter of W.B. and Guylah Burns of Delta County. She eloped with a handsome native Hopkins County boy, Nelson H. Ross, in 1948 after he returned from WWII. Jean was happy to spend her whole life in these two counties living a good ‘ol country life. She had a tireless work ethic that started with picking cotton by hand....
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office is Hiring
August 22, 2023 – Full time and part time positions are available at the Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office as local Sheriff Lewis Tatum has added (3) new full time positions to next year’s budget, which will start October 1, 2023. In addition, salaries are increasing for all county employees including the newly needed Patrol Deputy positions which will start at $59,400 after October 1. Other positions are also...
Tammy Matlock
Memorial service for Tammy Matlock, age 53 of Saltillo, Texas will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Thursday, August 24, 2023 at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home with Danny Christenberry officiating. There will be no formal visitation. Mrs. Matlock passed away on August 20, 2023 at Christus Mother Frances-Sulphur Springs. Tammy was born on October 13, 1969 in Hopkins County, Texas to Ibra Mitchell “I.M” Melba Ann (Green) Mills. She married Larry...
Amanda Kay Lawson
Amanda Kay Lawson, 46 of Cooper, Texas passed away Wednesday August 16, 2023. Memorial Services are scheduled for 11a.m. Saturday August 19, 2023, at Delta Funeral Home Chapel Family will receive friends and family from 10 a.m. to 11a.m prior to service. Amanda was born in Dallas, Texas on July 3, 1977, to Alvin and LaRue (Cain) Lawson. Amanda married Tammy Davis on May 27, 2018, in Cooper, Texas, she worked at Town and Country Dry...
Pam Schonard
Pam Schonard, age 72 of Alba, Texas passed away on August 15, 2023 at Christus Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs. Pam was born in Ft. Worth, Texas to John Robert Schonard Sr. and Emma Joyce (Woodard) Schonard. She earned her bachelor’s degree in education at Texas Women’s University. Pam worked in several fields throughout her life, most recently as a hospital admissions administrator. She is survived by her sister, Pat Byrd;...
